Cigar-pocket.



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ol L. PABMENTEH. CIGAR POCKET.

ypplicution led. May 20, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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OF RACINE, vWTSCONSIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,790, dated Cctoberl, 1901.

Serial No. 6 1,), 3 3. (No model.)

Ahave invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Cigar-Pockets; andI do hereby declare the followi f to be a full, clear, andexactdescription oi e invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the'same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in sheets or connectedseries of pouches, pockets, or receptacles, such as are particularlyadapted, for instance,vto receive cigars, and are commonly known in thetrade as the Parmentcr cigar-pockets.7

An object of the invention is to provide a sheet or series of connectedcollapsible pouches or receptacles constructed and arranged in animproved manner, whereby the pouches of each sheet can be compressedinto as small a compass as possible for packing or shipment and yet sothat the pouches can be easily opened for the insertion of cigars orother articles for which the particular pouches may be adapted.

The invention consists in certain novel features in construction and inarrangements or in combinations of parts, as more fully and particularlydescribed and pointed out hereinafter.

tefcrring to the accompanying drawings,

4Figure l is a perspective view of a series of connected cigar-pockets,showing the front side of the sheet or series. Fig. 2 is asimilar View,but looking at the rear side of the sheet or series of pockets andshowing the. Opening-strip connecting the upper portions of theexpanding/walls of the series of pockets. Fig. i is an end or edge View,enlarged, of the sheet of pockets shown in the preceding figures. Fig. iis a top plan View of the sheet of pockets, illustrating how the openingof one pocket opens those adjacent thereto partially, so that the pointor tip of the cigar can be easily inserted therein. Fig. 5 is aperspective View of several connected cigarpockcts provided with theopening-strip, said strip being so formed as to project beyond themouths of the pockets and form sealing-deps. Fig. 6 is a detailperspective View showing several'counected pockets, the

opening-strip being shown located a light distance below the upper endsor mouths of the pockets and not extending ilush with thc mouths andslitted, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3. Fig. 7 is a detail perspectiveview ot' several connected pockets,illustrating a mod iied arrangement.

In the specilic example shown in the drawings the sheet of connectedpocket-s comprises a main connecting or backing sheet a, in length equalto the full length of the series or sheet of pockets and in width equalto or greater than the length of each pocket.

Z) designates the pockets, each preferably composed of a tube offlexible material, having the bellows or collapsible sides o and theliat rear walls or faces. These tubes are all parallei with. each otherand are pasted, cemented, or otherwise secured side by side closely ar-vranged on the backing-sheet a with their mouths at one end along onelongitudinal edge of said backing-sheet and having their opposite endssuitably closed, usually compressed and sealed by doubling thebackingslieet over said ends and sealing the same down on the rear facesof the tubes. It will thus be noted in the specilic form shown that thefront walls of the pockets are entirely covered by thebacking-sheet,while the rear walls of the tubes are covered andconnected only for a short distance at their lower ends. Each tube ishence free to expand at its rear independently of all other tubes when acigar is inserted, whereby cigars of different dimensions and diameteiscan be inserted in adjacent pockets of the saine sheet without causingthe same to bind, and each pocket can be distended to its full capacityand, if need be, its rear flexible wall rounded or convened outwardly toaccommodate the cigar without in any Way disturbing or changing theshape of the adjacent pockets. l rlhis advantage does not accrue wherethe pockets are connected together along both their front and rear wallsthroughout the full lengths thereof. However, experience hijasdemonstrated that sheets ot' pockets constructed about as hereinbeforementioned are sometimes somewhat inconveuieut to open to receive thecigar-tip and that it is`s0metimes desirable to open the mouth of apocket partially to properly insert the cigar-tip. Hence IOO it hassometimes been found desirable in the manufacture of the pockets to onlyslightly `compress the same, so that the pockets will be normallysomewhat open at their mouths when delivered for use to facilitate theinsertion oi' the cigar-tips therein without requiring that the pocketsbe first partially opened by the lingers. lVhen the pockets are thusonly slightly compressed, leaving them normail;I slightly open at themouths, the sheets of pockets cannot be tightly packed for shipment, norcan they be conveniently packed tightly, as is usnallydesirable, incigar-boxes or in cases or covers, nor in certain other connectionswhere it is usually desirable that the sheets of pockets be packedclosely and tightly into as small a space or compass as possible. Atthis point it is appropriate to state that the collapsible sides ofeachl pocket are usuforming the tube with angular inturned foldsextending longitudinally throughout the length of the tube. Eachcollapsible side can be formed by one or more angular folds, the ends ofthe sheet forming the inner wall of the pocket being pasted or otherwisesecured to the backing-sheet.

To permit close or tight compression of the lpockets of a sheet orseries into as small a transwersel space or thickness as possible andyetso as to automatically open the mouths of the pockets of a seriesadjacent to one pocket into which a cigar has been inserted, i providewhat might be termed an openingstrip c, which is 'secured to the rear orVindependentlyexpanding faces of all the pockets of the sheet. Thisstrip or connection can be formed and secured in any desired ner and canbe composedof any suitable material for the purpose intended. I usuallyemploy a narrow strip of flexible materialsuch, for instance, aspaper-in length equal tu the length of the sheet or series and securetle same across and connecting the rear face ol' each pocket, usuallyadjacent or close to the mouth ends of the pockets. This strip in no wayinterferes with the independent expansion of the pocketshereinbeforedescribed, nor does it in any way interfere with a closecompression of the sheet of pockets to an exeeedingly small thicknesstransversely, and yet with a tightly-compressed sheet if a cigar isinserted in any one of the pockets the mouths ot' theimmcdiately-a'djacent pockets will he slightly distended to a greater orlesser extent through the medium of said openingstrip connecting theexpanding walls of the pockets. The advantages of connecting thc mouthportions of the expanding walls of the connected pockets are henceobvious. The insertion of a cigar in one pocket thus automatically opensthe mouths of adjacent pochets, so that the cigar-tips can be easily andquickly inserted therein without the necessity of first partiallyopening the mouths with the fingers, and as each pocket is iilledadditional porkcts have their mouths automat-ically formed by providingthe sheet of paper ally opened to receive other cigars, and yet .all theadvantages of the iudcpendehtly-expanding walls of the sheet of pocketsare retained. y

in the specific example illustrated the pock- -ets are detachably orseparably connected ving-strip on lines between the pockets, as saidnarrow strip readily tea-rs transversely lietween the pockets when thepockets are separated one from lthe other. Howeverg'if desired, saidstrip can be weakened on lines between the pockets. Also, if desired,said strip can be formed of suitable width and so arranged as to projectbeyond the mouths of the pockets to form sealing-[laps c', as shown inFig. 5, and said iaps can be 4provided with paste or cement, so thatwhen the pockets are filled the ends of the pockets can be cornpressedand the flaps closed over the same and pasted down on the front walls ofthe pockets to form sealed inclosed oigar-packages. Vvhen theopening-strip is thus provided with seal-Y ing-flaps, it can betransversely weakened on lines between the pockets, so as to readilyseparate with thepockets.

If desirable, it is possible that the pockets might be separately formedcomplete and then detachably connected together in sheets (see Fig. 7)by somewhat-narrow strips doubled over and sealed to and compressing thelower ends of the pockets and extending up the front walls of thepockets no farther than the sheet shown extends u p the rear walls ol'ICO log

the pockets and then connecting the mouth portions of the pockets alongthe front "and rear Walls by two opening-strips arranged er. oppositewalls of the pockets and both eolnected and arranged as the one stripcis shown arranged in the drawings. In such :i oonstruction the frontand back walls of fach pocket would be free to es grand independen tl y,the mouths would be automatically openedI by the opening and connectingstrips, and the pocket-s would be readily separable one from the other,as the lines of weaknesswoul lie between the pockets whether or not the:onnecting-strips be cut or perforated.

lt is evident that various changes and rrodiieations might be resortedto in the forms and constructions described without departing from thespirit and scope otl my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. As an article of manufacture, a sheet or series ofdetachably-connected cigar-pockets provided with a continuous sevcrableopening-strip traversing the mouth end portions of all the pockets andmem-ed to the a@ in.

f. said pockets being detachable one from th and cspebie of expandingbetween its end portions independently of the other pockets,

dependeDtiy-,expansibie IWalls or facesof the pockets, end meansother'thsn seid strip securing the pockets together et their closed endsand opposite weils or feces, snostenam opening-striptraversing andsecured to 2o tiaiiy as described. eil the pockets near their mouth endsand 2. A sheet or series of connected pockets, -extended to formsealing-deps to close the each pocket having coilepsibie side Weils andmouths of the pockets and means, substanhsving a side expanding betweenits ends intiady es described, other than said strip de 'dependentiy ofthe other pockets, en opentechsbiy connecting seid pockets to form the25 sheet or series, substantially as described.

1n testimony whereo` I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.4

ORVILLE L. PARMENTER. Witnesses:

E. B. HAND, MAUDE WILDA ing-strip extending transversely across ansecured to end connecting sii the pockets, e other and means, other thanseid strip,- detachahiy connecting said pockets, substantisiiy asdescribed;

r 3. A sheet or series of connected pockets,

